ATOF(F)             Linux Programmer's Manual             ATOF(F)



NAME
       atof - convert a string to a double.

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       double atof(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION
       The  atof()  function  converts the initial portion of the
       string pointed to by nptr to double.  The behaviour is the
       same as

              strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL);

       except that atof() does not detect errors.

RETURN VALUE
       The converted value.

CONFORMING TO
       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO
       atoi(i), atol(l), strtod(d), strtol(l), strtoul(l)



GNU                         1993-03-29                    ATOF(F)